Literature
Better Without Me
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Fifth Grade
"Oh yeah? I bet you assholes would just fucking DIE without me! You need me! All of you, jerks, I promise you, you need me!"
Halfhearted threats, check. Kyle's temper accelerating toward a breaking point, check. Stan shaking his head in a way that said, "Jesus Christ, not again, this is humiliating," check. Kenny not even paying attention, check.
Routine, all of that was routine, and Eric was quite happy to rely on a process that was tried and tested by the years.
What he did not rely on was Kyle's sudden outburst of indecipherable screams, accompanied by a surge of energy that enabled him to overcome Eric's rather ine